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  • When she returned to her job at St Michael and All Angels Church of England Academy in Camberwell, south London, she faced criticism over the pictures she had shown to the crowd, as well as whether her critique of the state system was disparaging to the school.

    Tories' star teacher ponders next move: start a free school or move to Sweden Jeevan Vasagar 2010

  • This is another one of my UK-connection's rather brilliant suggestions: Roland Shanks is a five-piece made up of a group of early-twenties blokes living in Camberwell (London area - see Basement Jaxx Camberwell EP for reference) who formed the band in late 2004.

    I am... (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • This is another one of my UK-connection's rather brilliant suggestions: Roland Shanks is a five-piece made up of a group of early-twenties blokes living in Camberwell (London area - see Basement Jaxx Camberwell EP for reference) who formed the band in late 2004.

    Music (For Robots): July 2005 Archives 2005

  • I was born in Camberwell, South London, on the 26th of March, 1938.

    Anthony J. Leggett - Autobiography 2004

  • She invited me to a party at one of her workmates 'flats last night, and I rather reluctantly agreed to go, despite the fact that it was in Camberwell, and I'd been at work all day, and it didn't start until 9. 30pm, and I had about a hundred things to do on Sunday cos it was my only day off.

    Bleeeeaaaauuuughhh... kisobel 2003

  • The tram ride was rather jolly, but when we got out and walked we felt like "Alone in London," or "Jessica's First Prayer," because Camberwell is a devastating region that makes you think of rickety attics with the wind whistling through them, or miserable cellars where forsaken children do wonders by pawning their relations 'clothes and looking after the baby.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • So he gives concerts in Camberwell, and places like that, and curates come from far and near, to sing about Bold Bandaleros and the Song of the Bow, and people who have escaped being curates give comic recitings, and he is sure that it does every one good, and "gives them glimpes of the Life Beautiful."

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • I take your point re Camberwell, which is slightly more remote (I use the term loosely) but to be honest I wouldn't place a cycle rack in either place.

    Inform - Politics ThisIsLondon.co.uk 2010

  • Or, perhaps, the top of an omnibus bound for some remote place such as Camberwell, or Sidcup, or the Welsh Harp would suit her better.

    Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

  • Or, perhaps, the top of an omnibus bound for some remote place such as Camberwell, or Sidcup, or the Welsh Harp would suit her better.

    Night and Day 1920

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